[conradev]

https://diskprices.com/ is great for this

You have SATA or SAS to pick from. The CPU requirements for a storage server are not high. On a typical ATX board you have motherboard SATA and can put SAS controllers in the spare PCIe slots.

My first "NAS" was two 22TB hard drives in a ZFS pool on my motherboard SATA

[sgt]

There should be more sites like diskprices. So refreshing to see no styling, no cookie banners, just pure information.

[dapperdrake]

ATA (SATA), SCSI (SAS), and NVM (NVMe).

[Brian_K_White]

no. just sata & sas. There is no nvme spinning drive and flash loses bits just from sitting, it's not archival. flash is good for working not for storing.

[QuiEgo]

This is true, but if you use a file system that does scrubs (and you should use such a file system for a NAS), and if you keep the NAS on 24*7, this won’t be an issue.

[Dylan16807]

A NAS is plugged in. Flash works fine for it.